Noticias aéreas

[Pertur]

¿Y no les hubiese sido mas rentable haberse metido en F16 de segunda mano (aunque cada día quedan menos) o en F/A50 ?

Saludos.

[champi]

La DGT está probando un Tecnam P2006T MRI en Gran Canaria: http://www.pistonudos.com/reportajes/la ... s-pegasus/

[Orel]

Para la DGT mejor helos, ¿no?

Aparte, Taiwán continua su potenciación, a sus F-16 van a ponerles el pod EW ALQ-131 con jamming DRFM y han creado un nuevo mando aéreo de defensa antiaérea y antimisiles:
http://alert5.com/2017/09/04/taiwan-rea ... with-drfm/
http://alert5.com/2017/09/03/taiwan-ina ... e-command/

[Orel]

Nueva RAA:
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/stweb ... 261743.pdf

[Orel]

EEUU ha ejecutado un ataque aéreo en favor del gobierno de Somalia:
http://www.africom.mil/media-room/press ... of-somalia

Quien quiera y pueda comprar un Tornado F2A o un Harrier Gr.3...:
http://www.defensa.com/industria/tiene- ... se-harrier

El Ejército y la Armada indios firman 41 helicópteros ligeros HAL Dhruv:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... vs-440864/

[champi]

150 MD 530F para Afganistán por $1.385.497.987: https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/ ... e/1299955/

Como curiosidad, también hay un contrato para 24 motores de Super Hornet por $91.575.576 por lo que cada uno sale a más o menos $3,8 millones.

[champi]

Primer vuelo del A330MRTT francés (Phénix): http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/2017/09 ... ix-tanker/

[Orel]

Esta semana ha muerto un piloto de la USAF en accidente aéreo, pero no han revelado el modelo de avión, lo cual es un poco raro:
http://alert5.com/2017/09/09/28th-perso ... ous-crash/

Y más runrún de rearme polaco: aviones de patrulla marítima y guerra electrónica:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... rs-440966/

[champi]

Accidente del S-97 Raider, aunque el programa sigue adelante: http://www.defensenews.com/land/2017/09 ... s-forward/

WASHINGTON — Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider experimental helicopter sustained “substantial damage” from a hard landing during a flight test at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm, Beach, Florida, in early August, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report issued Monday.

But the hard landing isn’t stopping Sikorsky from driving its work on the experimental aircraft forward, according to Chris Van Buiten, the company’s vice president of technology and innovation.

The Raider will fly again in 2018, he said.

Moreover, based on preliminary findings, the cause of the hard landing had nothing to do with Sikorsky’s primary X2 coaxial technology used both in the Raider aircraft and its SB-1 Defiant demonstrator it’s building for the Army’s Joint Multi-Role demonstration, which will help define requirements for a Future Vertical Lift aircraft expected to begin flying in the 2030s, Van Buiten stressed.

“The neighborhood of the root cause is the complex interaction between the ground, the landing gear, the flight control system and the associated pilot interactions,” he told a few reporters in a phone interview. “If you are familiar with the rotorcraft industry, this is a well-documented complex set of interaction as airplanes transition from operations on the ground to operations in flight.”

The hard landing occurred when the helicopter was in a hover over a landing zone.

The analysis of the hard landing show the transition “didn’t go exactly as it should,” Van Buiten said, “and we are making some changes to the flight control system software to accommodate that and assure that it never happens again.”
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The landing gear sustained “significant damage,” Van Buiten said, “but the pilots put the aircraft down level on the runway,” the crew shut off the engines and the electrical systems, opened the egress doors, hopped out of the helicopters and walked away from the crash.

While the report notes both pilots received “minor injuries,” Sikorsky said in a statement Monday that the two pilots “suffered minor discomfort, which did not require follow-up medical treatment.”
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The second aircraft is “mostly built,” but was put on hold so Sikorsky could incorporate lessons learned from the first prototype, which had flown 20 hours and performed over 100 hours of ground runs before its crash, according to Van Buiten.

The second prototype will pick up where the first aircraft left off and continue to expand the envelope particularly in pushing its speed potentially over 220 knots, Van Buiten said. Additionally, the company will demonstrate some of the maneuvers “that are uniquely possible with the X2 technology,” he added, such as “the ability to hover nose down, nose up and rapid deceleration and accelerations from the landing zone.”

Sikorsky has also been maturing a weapons suite for Raider in its system integration lab and intends to incorporate those on the second aircraft.

“That all happens next year,” Van Buiten said. “We will provide more detail as it evolves as to when some of those exact milestones are.”

A much more comprehensive report from the safety board is still to come and is subject to change, according to the board and Sikorsky. The timing of the release of that report is unknown.

Y al mismo tiempo, el Defiant se retrasa por problemas en la manufactura de los rotores: http://www.defensenews.com/digital-show ... hallenges/

[Orel]

Algo más sobre el extraño accidente en Nellis en el que no citaron el modelo, y se baraja que fuese un programa secreto:
http://theaviationist.com/?p=43578

[Shomer]

Aun se especula con se haya tratado de un Sujoi Su-27. Los yanquis tienen como mínimo tres, uno adquirido a Bielorrusia en los 90s y dos a Ucrania en el 2009.

Es posible que incluso dispongan de algunos mas, pues hay operadores privados que disponen de Flankers y los alquilan al mejor postor: http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm

[pretoriano]

Mini entrevista al presidente de Airbus España, Fernando Alonso. Creo que no va a dejar indiferente a nadie...
http://www.expansion.com/empresas/industria/2017/09/18/59bfad37468aebc77a8b45af.html

[Chorbis]

Northrop Grumman compra la empresa Orbital......

http://eleconomista.com.mx/industria-gl ... es-orbital

[ModeJu]

Mini entrevista al presidente de Airbus España, Fernando Alonso. Creo que no va a dejar indiferente a nadie...
http://www.expansion.com/empresas/industria/2017/09/18/59bfad37468aebc77a8b45af.html

Eso iba a colgar, es claro que el siguiente avión europeo debe ser "común" y "único". ¿Contarán con la industria inglesa?.

El A400M está dicho en su foro correspondiente y el A380 salvo para países con grandes poblaciones y distancias creo que no interesa, aparte de la opción de Boeing que es totalmente diferente (y creo que tampoco se vende como se esperaba).

[Silver Surfer]

Alexandra Ashbourne-Walmsley, asociada en el Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), un grupo de expertos (think-tank) con sede en Londres lo ha explicado claramente: El Reino Unido ha aceptado que no puede construir otro avion de combate por sí solo. Tanto como una evolución natural del programa F-35, como por las economías de escala, tener una pequeña parte de un proyecto de Estados Unidos vale más que un programa Franco Aleman.

El mayor usuario del A-380 tiene solo 9 millones de habitantes y apenas 83000 km cuadrados. Es algo mas complicado que tiene que ver con la eficacia y menor coste de operacion de los bimotores. Las ventajas iniciales de los quads, incluidos los Jumbo, estan siendo eliminadas poco a poco por ETOPS.


https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS